Gold Medal Diary
Inside the World's Greatest Sports Event
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Publisher Description
In Gold Medal Diary, Hayley Wickenheiser, three-time Olympic gold medal winner and captain of the Canadian Women's Olympic Hockey Team, reveals her day-to-day experiences of the 2010 Games, including the six-month lead-up of intensive training and pre-Olympic tournaments. She shares the life of an Olympian — the behind-the-scenes stories, the highs and lows, physical and emotional challenges, struggles and triumphs of an elite athlete in a hyper-intense environment, including details of the public ceremonies and private moments, friendships and rivalries, community and isolation, media presence and security. For the first time ever, readers travel inside the storied Athletes’ Village and understand what it’s like to live through the most high-pressure, high-profile sporting event in the world.
Customer Reviews
Great book even for those not in to womens hockey
It was a wonderful and interesting book for any hockey fan to read. My only compliant is Hayley doesn't really get too personal and doesn't talk too much about the feelings surrounding her experiences except in terms of being tired or in pain. It may just be her personality but I would have to have been able to walk away seeing her as more of a "real person" instead of just as an athlete but this book isn't a biography and I understand that. SHE TRULY AN INSPIRATION TO WOMEN AND GIRLS EVERYWHERE!!!!